{"id":8666,"date":"2015-05-31T08:02:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T13:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8666"},"modified":"2015-05-31T08:02:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T13:02:41","slug":"pentagon-report-says-west-gulf-states-and-turkey-foresaw-emergence-of-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8666","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon report says West, Gulf states and Turkey foresaw emergence of \u2018IS\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pentagon report says West, Gulf states and Turkey foresaw emergence of \u2018IS\u2019\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n
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A US intelligence report reveals that Western support for Syria\u2019s rebels aided and abetted the rise of the \u2018Islamic State\u2019 – and the Pentagon won\u2019t deny it<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A newly declassified Pentagon report provides startling\u00a0high-level confirmation<\/a>\u00a0that the US-led strategy in Syria contributed directly to the rise of the Islamic State (IS).<\/p>\n

The secret US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) document, obtained by Washington DC law firm Judicial Watch, reveals that the emergence of an \u201cIslamic State\u201d across Iraq and Syria was foreseen by the Pentagon, as early as three years ago.<\/p>\n

According to the internal report, which was distributed throughout the US intelligence community, this was seen as a likely consequence of the West\u2019s efforts to destabilise Bashir al-Assad\u2019s regime in Syria.<\/p>\n

Despite that, Western governments continued to coordinate financial, military and logistical support to largely Islamist militant rebel groups in Syria, through allies Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Jordan and Turkey, among others.<\/p>\n

A sectarian insurgency<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Dated August 2012, the report states that the \u201cmajor forces driving the insurgency in Syria\u201d comprise \u201cthe Salafist, the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI [al-Qaeda in Iraq].\u201d<\/p>\n

Immediately after, the document states that these forces are being supported by a Western-led coalition: \u201cThe West, Gulf countries and Turkey support the opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout, the document does not suggest a distinction between “moderate” Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels and Islamist militant groups, nor between the insurgency and the opposition.<\/p>\n

Rather, the document shows that opposition forces engaged in fighting the Assad regime consisted of a combination of overlapping Islamist forces. Singling out al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the document says the terror group \u201csupported the Syrian opposition from the beginning\u201d due to its belief that Assad was \u201ctargeting Sunnis\u201d.<\/p>\n

The report further describes the insurgency as a \u201csectarian uprising,\u201d whose increasingly sectarian character attracts \u201cvolunteers\u201d from across the region to \u201csupport the Sunnis in Syria\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

– See more at: http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/columns\/pentagon-confirms-west-gulf-states-and-turkey-created-islamic-state-608321312#sthash.acNMhXkJ.dpuf<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pentagon report says West, Gulf states and Turkey foresaw emergence of \u2018IS\u2019\u00a0 A US intelligence report reveals that Western support for Syria\u2019s rebels aided and abetted the rise of the \u2018Islamic State\u2019 – and the Pentagon won\u2019t deny it A newly declassified Pentagon report provides startling\u00a0high-level confirmation\u00a0that the US-led strategy in Syria contributed directly to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5907,1243,1239,447,5909,2092,620,776,818,5908,5906,865,965],"class_list":["post-8666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-dis","tag-gulf-states","tag-is","tag-islamic-state","tag-judicial-watch","tag-nafeez-ahmed","tag-pentagon","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-us-defence-intelligence-agency","tag-us-intelligence","tag-washington","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8667,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions\/8667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}